A new paper from our team has been published in Animal Behaviour. The paper looks at anxiety following grooming in wild Barbary macaques. This paper is the first one to assess post-grooming anxiety in the donor and recipient of the same grooming interactions in a wild non-human primate species. Two males grooming Reference: Molesti, S. […]
Author: Sandra Molesti
Monkeys playing on slide?
Watching juvenile Barbary macaques playing on a dead tree trunk shows that it is not only human kids (and adults!) who enjoy playing on slide. Monkey kids seem to enjoy this game too! Proof in video: Sandra
ASAB Easter Conference 2012
In April, I was pleased to attend the ASAB (Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour) Easter conference at the University of Aberystwyth. Conferences are the perfect venue to be updated on the recent advances from several fields of research, to discuss your own research and get valuable feedbacks from experts, and to network with […]
Good-bye Morocco
The time came also for me to leave Morocco and to go back to U.K. Indeed, it is now the time to analyze my data and write up my thesis and publications. In front of my Excel files I will certainly miss a lot the forest, the monkeys and Moroccan people. However my mind will […]
Back for a grooming
Larsson is a young adult male who was part of the Green Group until last year. Indeed, he left the Green Group in 2010 to start is adult life with another group. Larsson in 2010. Last day, the Green Group had an inter-group encounter with another group. The encounter was not really aggressive; the individuals […]